Accident on McKnight result of fleeing suspects: Chief Fitzgerald

An accident at McKnight at Interstate 64 at around 5 p.m., that backed up eastbound traffic to Interstate 270 was the result of fraud suspects at Fifth Third Bank trying to escape police, according to a post by Brentwood Chief of Police Dan Fitzgerald on the department blog.

This is was Fitzgerald said:

Our officers received a call for an attempted fraud in progress at Fifth Third Bank around 4:30 p.m. An officer responded and tried to stop a vehicle with two occupants who were involved in the fraud. The vehicle sped north on Brentwood, where it was spotted by another Brentwood officer near Eager and Brentwood. The car entered eastbound I-64 at Hanley Road, and at that time the Brentwood officers discontinued attempts to stop the vehicle.

At some point, for reasons unknown, the car made a u-turn somewhere near eastbound I-64 and McCausland. The car was traveling westbound, in the eastbound lanes, at a high rate of speed. There were no police vehicles chasing the car. The vehicle eventually was involved in an accident at Highway 64 and McKnight. There had been several other minor accidents before reaching McKnight. In all, there was one report of a minor injury.

The two occupants of the suspect vehicle fled the scene of the accident south into the York Hills subdivision. They both tried to hide in a storm water sewer drain located near York Dr and Middlesex Dr. A female was arrested by Brentwood police near the drain. The male suspect was located by a police canine farther inside the sewer drain. Two officers crawled into the filthy water from each end of the drain and arrested the suspect.

No one was injured. Two suspects in custody. When we sort through all of this we will pass along more information.